On Tuesday 31 August 2021 01:00:24 pm William Morder via tde-users wrote: > On Tuesday 31 August 2021 02:04:31 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > I doubt there is a way to make a difference between an fstab > > mounted "removable media" and a dynamicaly mounted one? > > > > Thierry > > First of all, I am running a desktop computer, not (as it seems) a laptop > like yourself, so I have a different situation. And I use a kind of > hodgepodge of different methods, to be sure that I can mount an external > device whenever I want. > > Somehow, unaccountably, a device that would mount automatically yesterday > won't mount today, and this nearly always happens at the least convenient > time, so I want something that will work NOW without a lot of fuss. This > happens most often with flash drives and SD cards, though. My external > drives usually are reliable, and mount without too much fuss. > > For the most part, however, I solve the problem by creating custom mount > points, with special user-friendly, human-readable names. > > examples: > /media/Fred > ~ or ~ > /media/<USER>/wd-1tb_mybook > etc., etc. > > You can name these special mount points like they were dogs, if you want, > or get more creative, or give them boring technical-sounding names -- > whatever. I put these mount points in fstab along with the other relevant > lines, then I save my fstab file somewhere safe. Next time I must reinstall > my system, I just copy the fstab file from my safe place, and overwrite the > original. (I keep a copy of original settings, just in case.) > > This takes care of most mounting issues. When SD cards or flash drives > suddenly stop mounting like usual, I create a mount point using mkdir: > /mnt/SD > then use this mount command: > sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/SD > [sda1 > sdd1 are internal drives; sde1 is my first external mount point] > and that usually does it. But I only mount an SD card in order to transfer > files so that I can listen to music on my smartphone, or some such. I don't > use an SD for actual storage, as one might with a laptop. > > The only problem is when I want to mount BOTH my external hard drives AND > my SD cards or flash drives. Then that mount point gets moved around, and > sde1 may need to be changed to something else. > > I have a couple other tricks, too, but I haven't needed them much since > upgrading to Devuan Beowulf. > > This ought to provide either a permanent solution (custom mount points in > fstab) or at least a dependable workaround (mkdir /mnt/SD). Also the > problem with mounting an SD card might be solved by formatting the SD card > with a Linux file system like ext3 or ext4 -- I don't even know if that's > possible! -- but then it would not be readable for my smartphone, so I > haven't tried. > > I hope that helps. > > Bill > ____________________________________________________ Made from the same old fashioned cloth. I do the same, I use the UUID to setup function specific names. I also use costum names for partitions and removable drives. As for formatting. As a rule of thumb I always reformat all drives, hds, ssd, usb etc. Especially usb drives because the formatting is done my imaging rather than an actual formatting. These are often flawed or broken. Plus the fact that MS dos doesn't actual properly format anything. Massive amounts of empty space before and after the partition. It's a mess. I hope this helps as well. Old Kate ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
